Daniel Acuña

Daniel Acuña (born 1974) is a Spanish comic book artist.

Biography

In college, Acuña studied painting and graduated with a degree in Fine Arts. He cites his early influences as Jack Kirby, the Romitas (Senior and Junior), Will Eisner, Simon Bisley, Kevin Nowlan, Hal Foster, and his favorite, Richard Corben, along with fine artists such as Edward Hopper, Alfons Mucha, and Drew Struzan.

His first published work was a 22-page black and white project, Claus & Simon in Hollywood, with fellow artist Santi Arcas, which was bought by Spanish publisher La Cupula when Acuña was 22. This work was followed by Claus & Simon: Freakshow, and Claus & Simon: Disaster Box. The "Claus & Simon" series is about the adventures of a clown and an antropomorphic dinosaur. The last story was done for the French market and later reprinted in the popular American magazine Heavy Metal (under the title Claus & Simon: Kings of Escape).

Claus & Simon increased Acuña's profile in Europe, and he received work painting the covers for European paperback reprints of Alan Moore's Supreme (#2-6), which led to Acuña's decision to try to break into the American market while still remaining active in the European comics industry.

Acuña's first work in the American comics industry was for Marvel Comics, on a miniseries for Axel Alonso that was never completed or published. DC Comics editor Eddie Berganza later hired him to paint pictures of Ravager and Blackfire for Teen Titans/Outsiders Secret Files. This work got Acuña noticed by Mark Chiarello, who suggested him to editors Mike Carlin and Joan Hilty as a cover artist for the Justice League of America and Outsiders series.

Although only doing American-market covers up until this point, Acuña made the move to interior art with Uncle Sam & the Freedom Fighters, on which he did the covers, pencils, inks, graytones and even character design, working with European colorist Javi Montes.

In late 2005, it was announced that Acuña had signed a two-year exclusive contract with DC Comics. However in 2007 it was announced that Acuña had signed an exclusive contract with Marvel Comics, to start in 2008, and would be leaving DC Comics. Acuña has previously only done covers for Marvel; his first interior work for the publisher will be The Eternals, starting in June 2008.

Acuña is currently based out of Águilas, Spain.

Bibliography

Interior comic work includes:

• Claus & Simon (with Santiago Arcas):
  • ... en Hollywood (In Hollywood) (La Cúpula, graphic novel, 1998)
  • Feria de monstruos (Freakshow) (La Cúpula, graphic novel, 2000)
  • Cajón de Sastre (The Disaster Box) (La Cúpula, graphic novel, 2001)
  • "Rois de l'evasion (Kings of Escape)" (in L'Écho des savanes #237-244, 2004)
• 9-11 Volume 1: "Nothing but You on My Mind" (with Art Brooks, anthology, Dark Horse, 2002)
• French Kiss Comix #5: "Plan 69 from Outer Space" (script and art, anthology, La Cúpula, 2002)
• Anthem #1, 3 (with Roy Thomas, Heroic Publishing, 2006)
• Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters (with Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti, DC Comics):
  • "Prelude" (in Brave New World anthology one-shot, 2006)
  • Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters #1-8 (2006â€"2007)
• Green Lantern #18-20: "Mystery of the Star Sapphire" (with Geoff Johns, DC Comics, 2007)
• Flash (with Mark Waid, DC Comics):
  • All-Flash (final two pages, one-shot, 2007)
  • "The Wild Wests" (in v2 #231-232, 2007)
• The Eternals #1-6 (with Daniel Knauf and Charles Knauf, Marvel, 2008â€"2009)
• Young X-Men #11-12: "End of Days" (with Marc Guggenheim and Rafa Sandoval, Marvel, 2009)
• Dark Reign: The Cabal: "Emma Frost: How I Survived Apocalyptic Fire" (with Matt Fraction, anthology one-shot, 2009)
• X-Men: Legacy #228-230, Annual #1 (with Mike Carey, Marvel, 2009â€"2010)
• Uncanny X-Men (Marvel):
  • "White Queen, Dark Reign" (with Matt Fraction and Mitch Breitweiser, in Annual #2, 2009)
  • "This Strange, Unpleasant Land" (with Kieron Gillen, in v2 #15-17, Marvel, 2012)
• The New Avengers (with Brian Michael Bendis, Marvel):
  • "Siege" (with Stuart Immonen, in v1 #61-62, 2010)
  • "Infinity" (in v2 #8, 2011)
• Black Widow v4 #1-5: "The Name of the Rose" (with Marjorie Liu, Marvel, 2010)
• Captain America #611: "Trial, Part One" (with Ed Brubaker, Marvel, 2010)
• Wolverine v4 #6-9 (with Jason Aaron, Marvel, 2011)
• X-Men: Schism #3 (with Jason Aaron, Marvel, 2011)
• Avengers v4 #18-20, 23-24 (with Brian Michael Bendis, Marvel, 2011â€"2012)
• Uncanny Avengers (with Rick Remender, Marvel):
  • "Apocalypse Twins" (in v1 #6-11, 2013)
  • "Ragnarok Now" (in v1 #13, 2013)
  • "Avenge the Earth" (in v1 #18-22, 2014)
  • "AXIS Prelude: The Low Road" (in v1 #25, 2014)
  • "No More Mutants" (in v2 #1-ongoing, 2015â€"...)

Covers only

• La Poudre aux Rêves #96, 99 (La Cúpula, 2002)
• Outsiders #28-34, 36-41 (DC Comics, 2005â€"2006)
• JLA #120-125 (DC Comics, 2005â€"2006)
• Captain Universe/Hulk #1 (Marvel, 2006)
• Captain Universe/Daredevil #1 (Marvel, 2006)
• Captain Universe/X-23 #1 (Marvel, 2006)
• Captain Universe/Invisible Woman #1 (Marvel, 2006)
• Captain Universe/Silver Surfer #1 (Marvel, 2006)
• Doc Samson #1 (Marvel, 2006)
• Crisis Aftermath: The Battle for Blüdhaven #1-6 (DC Comics, 2006)
• The Infinite Crisis novelization (Berkley Publishing Group, 2006)
• Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #7-8 (DC Comics, 2007)
• Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding Special #1 (DC Comics, 2007)
• Flash v2 #235 (DC Comics, 2008)
• Hulk #1 (Marvel, 2008)
• Dark Reign: New Nation #1 (Marvel, 2009)
• The Dark Tower: Treachery #5 (Marvel, 2009)
• Wizard #209 (Wizard, 2009)
• Dark Avengers #3 (Marvel, 2009)
• Nova #23-28 (Marvel, 2009)
• X-Men: Legacy #225 (Marvel, 2009)
• Guardians of the Galaxy #17 (Marvel, 2009)
• All Winners Comics 70th Anniversary Special #1 (Marvel, 2009)
• Dark Wolverine #78 (Marvel, 2009)
• Second Coming: Prepare #1 (Marvel, 2010)
• I am an Avenger #4 (Marvel, 2011)
• Captain America #615.1 (Marvel, 2011)
• FF #1-4, 8-9 (Marvel, 2011)
• Fear Itself: Wolverine #1 (Marvel, 2011)
• Avengers v4 #21, 25 (Marvel, 2012)
• Uncanny Avengers v1 #1 (Marvel, 2012)
• First X-Men #4 (Marvel, 2013)
• Thor: God of Thunder #1-3 (Marvel, 2013)
• Deadpool #3 (Marvel, 2013)
• Winter Soldier #14 (Marvel, 2013)
• Journey into Mystery #650 (Marvel, 2013)
• Avengers v5 #3, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22-24 (Marvel, 2013â€"2014)

References

External links

• Daniel Acuña at the Comic Book DB
• Daniel Acuña's blog
• Daniel Acuña profile in 'Guía del cómic' (Spanish)
• Daniel Acuña cover art gallery